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Little, Amanda.
The Fate of food
[BOOK] :
what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world /
Amanda Little.
New York :
Harmony Books,
2019.
340 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
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Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world's population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades? Amanda Little, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-winning journalist, spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many U.S. states in search of answers to this question. Her journey took her from an apple orchard in Wisconsin to a remote control organic farm in Shanghai, from Norwegian fish farms to famine-stricken regions of Ethiopia. Throughout her journey, Little finds and shares a deeper understanding of the threats of climate change and encounters a sense of awe and optimism about the lessons of our past and the scope of human ingenuity.
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20190923.
Food security.
Sustainable agriculture.
Food supply
Environmental aspects.